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History and mythology, fact and fable, are closely interwoven in the texture of Japanese life and thought ; indeed, it is within relatively recent years only that exact comparative criticism has been able, with some degree of accuracy, to divide the one from the other. The accounts of the God-period .contain^ m the Kojiki and the Nihongj^-T '^RecQids of Ancient Matters" compiled, in 'the," eighth century of the Christian eia' profess : to outline the events of the vast cycles of years from the time of Ame-no-mi-naka-nushi-no-kami's birth in the Plain of High Heaven, ''when the earth, young and like unto floating oil, drifted about medusa-like," to the death of the Empress Suiko, A.D. 628.
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